Bug#604043: gnome-session: when choosing GNOME/Openbox as my session, both metacity and openbox get started

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 604043 openbox
severity 604043 important
# And really, it should be critical since it breaks unrelated packages
thanks

Le dimanche 21 novembre 2010 à 00:45 -0500, Jim Paris a écrit : 
> It is provided by /usr/share/xsessions/openbox-gnome.desktop, which is
> part of the "openbox" package.
> 
> > > I changed the /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager 
> > > gconf key from "gnome-wm" to "openbox", and now it works properly,
> > > but I don't think that should be necessary.
> > 
> > This is the documented way to change your window manager for GNOME.
> 
> My problem isn't changing the window manager.  It's that, in the
> _default_ configuration with that session selected, two window
> managers are executed.

Yes, this is because openbox-gnome-session is completely full of crack.
I mean, WTF is about setting GConf keys at startup, possibly making the
default GNOME session unusable?

The script can be replaced by this very simple one:
        #! /bin/sh
        WINDOW_MANAGER=openbox
        export WINDOW_MANAGER
        exec gnome-session

Cheers,
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